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Book review: Environmental History and World History: Developments in Congruence
(Brill, 2019)Patrick Manning, in his book Navigating World History, suggests that world history “has the potential to become a scholarly nexus linking many fields of study” that will enable historians to escape the “national paradigm ... -
Chapter 10 -- Punk Authenticity: Difference across the Iron Curtain
(Berghahn Books, 2019)Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive "authenticity" that could help activists to understand fundamental truths ... -
Editorial: Peter P. Lee a builder of minot
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Legionnaires' disease: building a better world for you
(Oxford University Press, 2018-07-01)The emergent or newly reemerging disease model often relies on poverty as a contributing factor in the transmission of infectious diseases. But as Andrew Price-Smith has argued, affluence can also be a factor in the enhanced ... -
Book review: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
(Oxford University Press, 2018-06-01)Mehrsa Baradaran has produced an important, sobering assessment of historic and contemporary African American banks. Although The Color of Money focuses on black financial institutions, the book’s scope is much larger than ... -
Book review: German Pop Music: A Companion
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-05)As editor Uwe Schütte observes, German pop music facilitates rich opportunities to "reflect on questions of German national identity and the definition of Germanness" (4). Accordingly, over the course of ten chapters and ... -
Book review: A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01-18)Flannery Burke’s A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth Century invites the student of the region to unpack the complicated stories in which Latinos, Native peoples, Anglos, African Americans, and ... -
Book review: Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
(Southern Historical Association, 2017-11)Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman is not a biography of the famous Founder, nor does it pretend to be. Rather, it offers five critical essays covering significant ... -
Del Norte meets Little Saigon: ethnic entrepreneurship on Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, 1970-2015
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-09)Since the 1970s, a stretch of Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, has seen the growth of both Latino and Asian businesses. Using mapping, data analysis, and historical research, this study compares the growth of ethnic ... -
Book review: Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence. History of Emotions Series
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Risse, who counts the William H. Welch Medal (1988) and Lifetime Achievement Award (2005) from the American Association for the History of Medicine among his many accolades, again focuses his analytical eye on late ... -
Book review: Epidemics, empire, and environments: cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910
(Oxford University Press, 2017-04-19)Michael Zeheter examines the experiences of two British colonial cities (Madras and Quebec) to epidemic disease threats, largely centered on the dread nineteenth-century disease of cholera. Zeheter seeks to compare and ... -
Introduction: Popular music and space in post-war German history
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-05)Scholars are increasingly turning to rock'n’roll and its many genres as a means of exploring the recent past. What is electrifying about popular music in all its myriad forms is that it becomes a channel for rethinking ... -
Crosstown traffic: punk rock, space and the porosity of the Berlin wall in the 1980s
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-05)This paper argues that crosstown traffic in the East and West German punk subculture was an essential aspect of how popular music helped to challenge the political legitimacy of the East German government. West German punks ... -
Book review: Beyond no future: cultures of German punk
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017-04-01)The editors of this slender volume on “cultures of German punk” assign Beyond No Future a significant task: with the emergence of a “subfield” of German punk, this collection hopes to bring together diverse voices while ... -
Book review: Metropolitan preoccupations: the spatial politics of squatting in Berlin
(Oxford University Press, 2017-03-01)While reading Alexander Vasudevan’s monograph on squatting in Berlin, the Rigaer Straße in Berlin-Friedrichshain has again exploded into violence. First occupied during the second wave of squatting in 1990, Rigaer 94 has ... -
"In our image, according to our likeness" : John D. Rockefeller, jr. and reconstructing manhood in post-Ludlow Colorado
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01)John D. Rockefeller, Jr.' s reactions to the Colorado Coal Wars resulted in the creation of the Employee Representation Plan, better known as the Rockefeller Plan. While labor historians identify the Rockefeller Plan as a ... -
Book review: The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
(University of Illinois Press, 2016)In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt seeks to illustrate a common thread in the first century of English colonization in Virginia, namely the popular appeal and impact of violence toward Indians. The brutal race war ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 2, Contemporary Historical Case Studies 1958-1988
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Pop History, vol 1, Concept and Methods
(Oxford University Press, 2016-09)This two-volume methodological and empirical study of the contours of popular music opens with a simple question: ‘Does pop history need theory?’ (Braucht Popgeschichte Theorie?, vol. 1, p. 7). Such a question implies that ... -
Book review: Born in the GDR: living in the shadow of the wall
(SAGE Publications, 2016-04)In the twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in East Germany, Hester Vaizey contends that two competing narratives exist uncomfortably side by side in the public understanding ...
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